i just got a rejection email, I am from India. I have a low gpa and i asked for an extension for the gmat. I honestly was pretty confident about my essays, gave my all, but here we are, did not get an interview invite. So to say that a person with a 3.7 gpa and a 760 gmat got rejected due to a very high gmat because he/she would target/prefer US schools is really weird unless the same person did not show major interest in the essays. For me the gpa and the gmat play a very important role when it comes into the profile eval. Everyone has great stories( Most of them pay the consultants so yeah mostly the essays are good), everyone has excellent recommendations i mean no manager would say, i don't like this person LOL, the reason your managers/colleagues are writing a recommendation for you is that they like you.
So now how do the schools differentiate, obviously via the GMAT & the gpa, especially for someone who belongs to a large applicant pool such as that of India, ofcourse there are "exceptions". Deep down, everyone knows this, but no one says it.
All the best to everyone, i really hope you all do really well \m/

Best Regards,
First, unhappy that you got rejected. What is your GPA, if you want to share? Thanks for backing me that adcoms don't reject high GPAs/GMATs purely based on those criteria. But I agree with Pablo though. When did you complete your application that gave you an early decision?